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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Marc Murphy launches a defence of his season and vows to break free of tags
Much respect for Marc toughing it out this season with a broken jaw and bung knee, some players sook over a sore toe.

First of all - it was a cheekbone, second of all, if his knee has been so bung that even his 2 week layoff with the cheekbone didn't help it at all.....whereby in fact since coming back from the cheekbone he's looked lame almost......well then - he gets absolutely no kudos from me for labouring with an injury which prevents him training a full week, every week & is causing his onfield performances to drop below an acceptable level. If you're injured, can barely train & this is clearly reflected on gameday for all & sundry to see AND to the detriment of the team.....I'm hardly gonna be congratulating him for that. You're easily pleased mbb......

The history of AFL footy is filled with stories of players playing through injury, rightly or wrongly. If he pulled out with a sore knee we'd all be complaining that he's a sooky la la.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 19 : Blues Lose To Frockers (Aftermatch Angst)
The 3 amigo's are really starting to p155 me off.
get rid of at least 1 of them , if not 2.

What a difference a few weeks make eh?
8 goals between them in a one point win over North, the team who beat Geelong on Friday night, and 6 last week in a 7 goal win.
We had a bad night as a team last night, it happens when you're a middle of the road side playing against a genuine Premiership chance, but tipping buckets on our good players won't change the fact that we have an average list.
We can't sack 20 players.

Agree with this.

We were very competitive for 3 quarters against a clearly better team. 4th quarter fade out was bad, but the fitness base (and possibly interest base) is lacking for some reason.

As an aside, I think Pav is holding the Frockers back - they look a lot hungrier when he's not there. Just a theory.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 19 : Blues Lose To Frockers (Aftermatch Angst)
3 Amigos - apart from Garlett's goal on the bell, all three were disappointing
gibbs - not bad, but not flash either
watto - not bad up forward - who would've thunk it ? Kudos to Blue Phantom for calling it earlier
scotto - very good game - barely put a foot wrong - shame to see him go next year, if he does.
jamo - meh
judd - another typical judd game - tried valiantly all night, did some ok things, but not much influence
murf - not a great captains game, but can't fault his effort - something somewhere ain't right 
krooz - absolute lion heart and always gives 110%, and actually not bad, but doesn't influence the game enough for mine - if we could clone his ticker and share it round the team, we might really have something.
hendo - has been a revelation this year, and tried tonight, delivery was poor, not one of his good games
carrots - non event
2E - great game - now this guy has serious ticker and can play
walks - not a good game from him. Would love to hear from DOA regarding what the players think of MM
roweyerboat - tries, but not up to it
lucas - did ok IMO
armfield - ok
curnow - not tonight Josephine

are we seeing the start of MM losing his senior players, like Den Den before him ? Boy they looked lost and disinterested tonight.

And I hope no team coached by Toss Lyon ever wins a flag - they are taking our once great game to an extremely ugly place. I can't bear the thought of 17 copycat teams mimicking that style of play if they win.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 19 : Blues Lose To Frockers (Aftermatch Angst)
Always seem to get the opposition when they are most pumped. Frockers won't play like that week in week out. They were manic tonight.

Apart from the last quarter, gallant effort by the boys. Some obviously had their colors lowered.

And BT should stick that microphone up his crack hole.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Rd 19 - Carlton vs Fremantle (In Game)
Very proud of the boys thus far. Done very well against this S#$t style of footy.

Toss Lyon should have his coaching license revoked. I keep waiting to hear Sterlo and Fatty Vautin's voice, thinking it's league. Awful spectacle
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 17 : Blues Defeat Kangaroos (After-Match Defibrillators)
"Lance" Gibbs was woeful last night, did anyone else see him half-heartedly chase a North player on the outer wing ?? He was within a metre and a half of the player at the most, the North guy took off, he trotted a handful of steps and then gave up, it was nearly as embarrassing as the Aussies batting last night.

Sorry, I'm completely over Gibbs now, sure he has great disposal (50% of the players in the competition would kill for his goal-kicking accuracy alone) but it's the other parts of his game that are reducing him to that of a serious passenger in the team. If we don't discreetly put the feelers out and see who will give us a decent trade at the end of the year then we clearly have no focus or plan on winning a premiership any time soon.

His disposal was pretty average last night, apart from that he played a a mainly defensive role and did it well.

He's not for sale and neither is Kreuz so move on.

A genuince KPD for Gibbs? I would take it. I see Gibbs the same way as Yarran. Either show genuine heart or get ready to pack your bags. Given his blatant talent, he has the heart and mongrel of a Mouse. Also see him doing "just enough", never gut runs or see genuine anger. Show Pony. If Melbourne offered Frawley for Gibbs I would say thanks.


I must say that watching MM spray Walker on the sidelines was great to see...never mind his expression when Army was pinged by the refs after making a wonderful tackle. I was waiting for him to do a Clarkson and smash something...loved the anger.

If Melbourne offered Frawley for Gibbs, I'd show them a photo of my butt hole and tell them to suck hard. No way would I do that trade.

I can only speak for myself, but watching Gibbs on TV seems to be only half the story - reports that one hears are that he's rated for his off the ball work as much as anything. But with the ball in his hands, he stunk it up last night for sure. And yes, his intensity was off last night also, been ok most of this year though.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 17 : Blues Defeat Kangaroos (After-Match Defibrillators)
We were lucky and plucky - lucky in the first quarter that norf were very inaccurate, which kept us in the game. And plucky that we had whatever it takes to take advantage of our luck. We also didn't get shafted by the umps for a change. Someone should bust Razor Ray's other kneecap.

If we could play 4 quarters the way we played the first 3, that would be great. The next step perhaps ?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 17 : Blues Defeat Kangaroos (After-Match Defibrillators)
Well Well Well. We won when we  should've really slaughtered them. We were going to at one stage and I remember thinking that I haven't seen Carlton win like this since I can remember but we didn't, did we. Ahh well.

Great to see Mick so happy  in the after match interview. He likes Curnow, someone he reckons just goes and goes. You can see why he got back into coaching, like a dedicated school teacher when you take the kids away from them,,,, lost.

An extremely cool $1M per season may have also helped him reignite his "passion."
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: RD 17 : Blues Defeat Kangaroos (After-Match Defibrillators)
Great effort by the boys. Glad to be wrong on this one. At least this time, time was on our side. Another couple of minutes and they would've had us.

Simmo, the 3 Amigos, Hendo all very good. Nice to see Yazz laying a tackle or two.

Gibbs, not this week mate.

Krooz, fantastic work ethic, but he gives me the willies too often.

Murph pretty good.

Judd quiet.

Lucas ok.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Development and Recruiting
I just had an idea, its a bit bold, and many wont like it, but Im going to float it anyway.

In the event that we do trade away Hampson and Warnock, would anyone else think that Koschitzke would be of any value to us?

Would come for nothing at least.

Even if he did cost us nothing, my answer would still be NO.

Any reason why?

From where I sit, he comes to us and becomes our 3rd best key forward and the only key forward on our list to have played in a grand final.  Think about how Geelong used Brad Ottens in his last couple of years at the cattery.

Overrated, under achieving player, coming from a club with a dubious culture. Never really grabbed a finals match by the scruff of the neck and stamped his authority on it. Too many head knocks. Near the end of his career etc...........

Many on here have been bagging him since he got drafted (not saying you're one of them btw).